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Huis Clermont (Vaals Town Hall)
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Didada
August 10, 2022
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Clermont left his mark on Vaals: he had a city palace with a cloth factory built by the Aachen master builder Moretti on Clermontplatz in the town centre. Today the …
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Rinaldini
March 5, 2022
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is the former headquarters of the cloth manufacturer Johann Arnold von Clermont and later that of Franz Ignaz Tyrell, who used it as a factory building, office and municipal residence. It was built between 1761 and 1765 according to plans by the Aachen-based architect Joseph Moretti in Milan as a four-wing complex in the classicist style and has been used as the town hall of the Vaals municipality since 1979 after extensive restoration work.
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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")
September 13, 2021
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"... The Clermont House (also called Vaals Town Hall; Dutch Huis Clermont, Gemeentehuis Vaals) at Von Clermontplein No. 15 in Vaals is the former ancestral home of the cloth manufacturer Johann Arnold von Clermont and later that of Franz Ignaz Tyrell, who used it as a factory building , office and municipal residence. It was built between 1761 and 1765 according to plans by the Aachen-based architect Joseph Moretti as a four-winged complex in the classicist style and has been used as the town hall of the Vaals municipality since 1979 after extensive restoration measures. ..."
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rheinische-industriekultur.de/objects/Vaals/clermont/clermont.html
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haus_Clermont_(Vaals)
rheinische-industriekultur.de/objects/Vaals/clermont/clermont.html
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